Cross training

Spent all last week "cross training" with the amateur burt0n crew...snowboarding out in Salt Lake area. Over 4 days we covered between 75k and 100k of vertical feet (depending on who you were - I was on the low side and robot Jeff and robot John were on the high side). This was my first day back into the gym and it was difficult to even walk in the door. I started thinking that I should postpone trying the marathon until next year. In the end, I convinced myself that was a bad idea...it simply is becoming more and more difficult for me to run that far.

So, I got back on the treadmill and ran/walked abuot 5.75 miles. Poor compared to previous weeks but I think I am still tired from the trip and shovelling us out of 24 inches of snow here in Cincinnati. Let's hope I can get back up fairly quick this month. On a positive note, that equates to about 30k feet which is how much vert we would cover in a full day of boarding! :-)

ups and downs

Had a horrible day on the treadmill today. Too cold to handle the great outdoors. I figured I should be able to run 6 miles at a time now given the past week or two. Tried to do it with an incline today (3-4%) and it was rough. Had a couple possible excuses - cold symptoms or bad sleep - but neither are really true.

I think that I will continue to see variability based on time of day, what I ate, my mood, etc. I hope that the median keeps climbing as we get started into the second month of training. Only time will tell!

Speaking of time, I continue to find creative ways to tell time. I TRY and cover up the clock so that I dont realize how much longer I have to go...but it is so easy to tell in other ways:

Miles run. Obviously I know how fast I am running so you can calculate time based on total miles attained.

Calories burned. I supposedly go through 1000 cals in an hour...at leas tthat is what the treadmill tells me. You can do the math!

Watching TV. You can determine time based on the time between commercials. Or you shold know basically how long you are going based on song lenght/music videos.

Anyone have other ways?

As for the weight, I expected to be down a bit, but I am still hovering around 200 lbs. My wife tells me I am trading fat for muscle mass...lets hope that is true! :-)